Therefore little tale hath he told Of any dream, so holy was his heart.
Chaucer.
Syn. — Anecdote; story; fable; incident; memoir; relation; account;
legend; narrative.
Tale (?), v. i. To tell stories. [Obs.] Chaucer. Gower.
Tale"bear`er (?), n. One who officiously tells tales; one who
impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc.,
and makes mischief.
Spies and talebearers, encouraged by her father, did their best to
inflame her resentment.
Macaulay.
Tale"bear`ing, a. Telling tales officiously.
Tale"bear`ing, n. The act of informing officiously; communication of
sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously.
Ta"led (?), n. (Jewish Antiq.) A kind of quadrangular piece of cloth
put on by the Jews when repeating prayers in the synagogues. Crabb.
Tale"ful (?), a. Full of stories. [R.] Thomson.
||Tal`e*gal"la (?), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Australian birds which
||includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.
||
Tal"ent (?), n. [F., fr. L. talentum a talent (in sense 1), Gr. &?; a
balance, anything weighed, a definite weight, a talent; akin to &?; to
bear, endure, &?;, L. tolerare, tollere, to lift up, sustain, endure.
See Thole, v. t., Tolerate.] 1. Among the ancient Greeks, a weight and
a denomination of money equal to 60 minæ or 6,000 drachmæ. The Attic
talent, as a weight, was about 57 lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination
of silver money, its value was £243 15s. sterling, or about $1,180.
Rowing vessel whose burden does not exceed five hundred talents.
Jowett (Thucid.).
2. Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it
was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93&?;
lbs. avoirdupois; as a denomination of silver, it has been variously
estimated at from £340 to £396 sterling, or about $1,645 to $1,916. For
gold it was equal to 10,000 gold shekels.